By Olaitan Oye- Adeitan , Adebukola Aluko & Fasilat Bello
Combined forces of heavily armed security personnel were on Friday morning deployed to the environs of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, CBN, to check the possible breakdown of law and order by the crowd of residents that besieged the apex bank to deposit the old naira notes.
The security personnel include the Nigerian Army, Police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC and Department of State Security Service, DSSS.
The stern-looking security agents were seen patrolling the Dugbe Bank road in a convoy while residents and other road users watched.
Residents who had been outside the premises of the CBN early in the morning were waiting helplessly and hoping they would be attended to.
The Apex bank had asked customers still in possession of the old naira notes to bring them for deposit after the commercial banks were rejecting them.
Meanwhile, many customers who had been trooping to banks since Wednesday this week, to withdraw money, had been returning disappointed for being unable to withdraw money.
Only a few banks who were reported to have opened for transactions at Dugbe axis of Ibadan could only pay customers five thousand naira across the counter.
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